Technology

Lockheed doubles down on lunar economy bet with new subsidiary Crescent Space Services

March 28, 2023

Lockheed Martin announced today the creation of a wholly owned subsidiary called Crescent Space Services that will focus on infrastructure for the moon, the latest sign that the aerospace and defense giant is bullish on the future of a lunar economy. The new venture will focus initially on a communications and navigation network in cislunar […]

Lockheed doubles down on lunar economy bet with new subsidiary Crescent Space Services by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft lets generative AI loose on cybersecurity

March 28, 2023

As a part of its continued quest to inject generative AI into all its products, Microsoft today introduced Security Copilot, a new tool that aims to “summarize” and “make sense” of threat intelligence. In a light-on-the-details announcement, Microsoft pitched Security Copilot as a way to correlate data on attacks while prioritizing security incidents. Countless tools […]

Microsoft lets generative AI loose on cybersecurity by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Google gets antitrust attention in Spain over news licensing

March 28, 2023

Google can add another antitrust investigation to its stack. This one has been opened by Spain’s competition authority, the CNMC, which said today it’s concerned about possible anti-competitive practices related to the licensing of news content by local publishers. In a press release it said it is investigating “a series of practices that could involve […]

Google gets antitrust attention in Spain over news licensing by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Delivering insights at scale by modernizing data 

March 28, 2023
Greater speed and agility are helping organizations address an increasingly competitive marketplace, heightened customer expectations, and the lingering impact of the pandemic. To compete more effectively, companies are gathering and analyzing increasingly large and disparate sets of data. But only with cloud solutions, like Microsoft Azure, can this data provide insight into every corner of…

Technology and industry convergence: A historic opportunity

March 28, 2023
When seemingly disparate fields, industries, and ways of thinking merge, a convergence happens, which, has the power to build more intuitive and advanced futures for both organizations and the everyday consumer, says Accenture communications, media and technology industry group chair, Kathleen O’Reilly and Daniela Rus, Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL),…

Seed funding finds fertile ground with Mate Fertility

March 28, 2023

Fertility treatment is a huge industry, but traditionally it has been very geographically and demographically limited. U.S. fertility clinics are concentrated in the top 10 metropolitan areas across the country, and around 82% of recipients of care have historically been Caucasian, heterosexual married women living in a big city making more than $100,000 a year. […]

Seed funding finds fertile ground with Mate Fertility by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Germany probes Microsoft’s market power

March 28, 2023

Microsoft is the latest tech giant to be caught in the cross-hairs of Germany’s antitrust authority. The Federal Cartel Office (FCO), aka the Bundeskartellamt, has announced it’s opened a proceeding to determine whether special abuse measures can be applied to the company’s business in Germany — citing Microsoft’s extensive digital ecosystem which it noted cuts across […]

Germany probes Microsoft’s market power by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon opens its low-bandwidth, long-range Sidewalk network to developers

March 28, 2023

Back in 2019, Amazon announced Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless network that uses the 900 MHz spectrum to connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It does this by creating a mesh network between Amazon’s own Echo and Ring devices and sharing a small part of their owner’s bandwidth. Ideally, this means Sidewalk will be able […]

Amazon opens its low-bandwidth, long-range Sidewalk network to developers by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch